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George Parker Tuxford
George Parker Tuxford (ca.1810 – 24 October 1870) of Barnes, London, was a British magazine publisher. Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of John Tuxford, George was a co-proprietor with John Rogerson (c. 1884 – 11 May 1851) of the English agricultural newspaper ''Mark Lane Express'', cofounded by Cuthbert William Johnson (1799–1878), brother of George W. Johnson, and William Shaw and edited by Shaw, and the ''Farmers' Magazine'' with offices at 246 The Strand. A frequent contributor to these magazines was Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), an entertaining writer on country matters. Tuxford and Rogerson also published the ''New Sporting Magazine''. He was also a founder and for many years a director of Farmers' Insurance Office, an early member of the Farmers Club, and a Life Governor of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Family Tuxford was the eldest brother of the Hon. William Wedd Tuxford (died 28 January 1878), John Lefevre Tuxford (died 29 June 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnes, London
Barnes () is a district in south London, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It takes up the extreme north-east of the borough, and as such is the closest part of the borough to central London. It is centred west south-west of Charing Cross in a bend of the River Thames. Its built environment includes a wide variety of convenience and arts shopping on its high street and a high proportion of 18th- and 19th-century buildings in the streets near Barnes Pond. Together they make up the Barnes Village conservation area where, along with its west riverside, pictured, most of the mid-19th-century properties are concentrated. On the east riverside is the WWT London Wetland Centre adjoining Barn Elms playing fields. Barnes has retained woodland on the "Barnes Trail" which is a short circular walk taking in the riverside, commercial streets and conservation area, marked by silver discs set in the ground and with QR coded information on distinctive oar signs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Boston is north of London, north-east of Peterborough, east of Nottingham, south-east of Lincoln, south-southeast of Hull and north-west of Norwich. Boston is the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Boston local government district. The town had a population of 35,124 at the 2001 census, while the borough had a population of 66,900 at the ONS mid-2015 estimates. Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church ("The Stump"), the largest parish church in England, which is visible from miles away across the flat lands of Lincolnshire. Residents of Boston are known as Bostonians. Emigrants from Boston named several other settlements around the world after the town, most notably Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Name The name "Boston" is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town", "stone", or "'" (Old English, Old Norse an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert William Johnson
Cuthbert William Johnson (21 September 1799 – 8 March 1878) was an English barrister and agricultural writer. Life Born at Bromley, Kent, on 21 September 1799, he was the eldest surviving son of William Johnson of Liverpool, and of Widmore House, Bromley, Kent. George William Johnson was his brother, and they were for some time employed together in their father's salt-works at Heybridge, Maldon, Essex. With his brother, Johnson was admitted a member of Gray's Inn on 6 January 1832, and called to the bar on 8 June 1836. He had chambers at 14 Gray's Inn Square, went the western circuit, and attended the Winchester and Hampshire sessions. Johnson was widely known as an authority on agricultural matters. He took part in the agitation which led to the passing of the Public Health Act 1848, and was for many years chairman of the Croydon local board of health. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 10 March 1842. He died at his house, Waldronhurst, Croydon, on 8 March 1878. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Johnson (writer)
George William Johnson (4 November 1802 – 29 October 1886), was a British writer on gardening. Biography Early life Johnson, born at Blackheath, Kent, was younger son of William Johnson, proprietor successively of the Vauxhall distillery, of the Coalbrookdale china-works, and of salt-works at Heybridge in Essex. At Heybridge Johnson and his elder brother, Cuthbert William Johnson, first found employment, and carried out experiments in the application of salt as manure, which they recounted in ''An Essay on the Uses of Salt for Agriculture''. One of their discoveries was an economical method of separating sulphate of magnesia, or Epsom salts, from seawater. As early as 1826 Johnson sent articles to Loudon's ''Gardener's Magazine''. His first independent work was ''A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical'' in 1829. It contains a vast amount of information, and exhibits great patience and research. At Great Totham, where he resided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shaw (1797-1853)
William Shaw "of the strand" (1797–1853) was a British agricultural writer, editor and translator, first editor of the agricultural journal ''Mark Lane Express,'' and of ''The Farmer's almanac and calendar,'' and co-founder of the Farmers Club in 1842. He is known for advocating agricultural reforms and improvements. Life and work William Shaw was born in Bath, Somerset in 1797, as eldest son of John Shaw of Bath. He spent two years from June 1813 to June 1815 at Wadham College, Oxford, and was admitted to the Inner Temple on 20 June 1828, being called to the bar on 22 November 1833. In 1832 Shaw co-founded the weekly agricultural journal ''Mark Lane Express'', of which he became its first editor. The other co-founders were Cuthbert William Johnson (1799–1878), John Rogerson and Joseph Rogerson, farmers from Lincolnshire, Doctor J. Blackstone,Carrie de Silva A short history of agricultural education and research'' Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire. 2013. and Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strand, London
Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London. It runs just over from Trafalgar Square eastwards to Temple Bar, where the road becomes Fleet Street in the City of London, and is part of the A4, a main road running west from inner London. The road's name comes from the Old English ''strond'', meaning the edge of a river, as it historically ran alongside the north bank of the River Thames. The street was much identified with the British upper classes between the 12th and 17th centuries, with many historically important mansions being built between the Strand and the river. These included Essex House, Arundel House, Somerset House, Savoy Palace, Durham House and Cecil House. The aristocracy moved to the West End during the 17th century, and the Strand became known for its coffee shops, restaurants and taverns. The street was a centre point for theatre and music hall during the 19th century, and several venues remain on the St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hall Dixon
Henry Hall Dixon (16 May 1822 – 16 March 1870) was an English sporting writer known by his pen name, "The Druid". Life Henry Hall Dixon was born at Warwick Bridge, Cumberland, on 16 May 1822. He was the second son of Sarah Rebecca and Peter Dixon. He was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1846. He took up the profession of the law, but, though called to the bar in 1853, soon returned to sporting journalism, in which he had already made a name for himself, and began to write regularly for ''The Sporting Magazine'', in the pages of which appeared three of his novels, ''Post and Paddock'' (1856), ''Silk and Scarlet'' (1859), and ''Scott and Sebright'' (1862). He also published a legal compendium entitled ''The Law of the Farm'' (1858), which ran through several editions. His other more important works were ''Field and Fern'' (1865), giving an account of the herds and flocks of Scotland, and ''Saddle and Sirloin'' (1870), treatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmers Club
The Farmers Club is a London private members' club based at Whitehall Court, founded in 1842. Members are required to have an association with farming, agriculture or food. History The club was founded in 1842 by the agricultural writer William Shaw, who invited the founder members from the newly formed Royal Agricultural Society of England, and the Smithfield Club. Shaw's letter set out that the club would be "a gathering place for farmers which could also serve as a platform, from which would go out to England news of all that was good in farming, with reports of any discussions about those things that needed to be done." The club's membership experienced periodic shifts with the changing prosperity of British farmers over the years - there were 700 members in 1876, 275 in 1892, but the club has grown in the 20th century, claiming 1,500 members in the 1920s, and just under 6,000 today. The club frequently moved premises in its first 60 years. Its inaugural meeting on 9 Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Agricultural Society Of England
The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) promotes the scientific development of English agriculture. It was established in 1838 with the motto "Practice with Science" and received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria in 1840. RASE is based in Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. Shows From its early days the society has held regular exhibitions around the country (called the Royal Show). The show was held in Stoneleigh Park (previously known as the National Agricultural Centre or NAC) near Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. An early venue for the show was at Park Royal, in north-west London. The last Royal Show took place in 2009. Since then, the Society has concentrated on transfer of scientific knowledge to agricultural practitioners. Journal The first editor of the ''Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England'', founded in 1854, was Philip Pusey, who had also been prominent in founding the society. After his death in 1855, the editing passed to H. S. Thompson, Sir T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wedd Tuxford
William Wedd Tuxford (bapt. 20 November 1826 – 28 January 1878) was a parliamentarian and agricultural machinery dealer in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire the son of John Tuxford and Hannah Parker, and apprenticed as a printer, at one stage working on the ''Mark Lane Express'' agricultural weekly partly, later fully, owned by his brother George Parker Tuxford (ca.1810–1870). He arrived in South Australia in May 1853 and set himself up with brother John Lefevre Tuxford as the Colony's first importer of agricultural machinery, between Grote and Gouger Streets, near Selby Street, then opened on North Terrace in December 1858. They acted as Australian agent for ''Mark Lane Express'', which they sold at the London cover price. Business dropped off however as local manufacture of such equipment boomed, compounded by some unsuccessful speculation in mining ventures, and was forced to close his machinery business, which ceased tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide ( ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The South Australian Advertiser
''The Advertiser'' is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named ''The South Australian Advertiser'' on 12 July 1858,''The South Australian Advertiser'', published 1858–1889 National Library of Australia, digital newspaper library. it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. ''The Advertiser'' came under the ownership of Keith Murdoch in the 1950s, and the full ownership of Rupert Murdoch in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd (ADV), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. Through much of the 20th century, ''The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, ''The News (Adelaide), The News'' the afternoon tabloid, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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